Application Engineering Technical Lead - II (The Vanguard Group, Inc. / Malvern, PA) -- Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms; provide technical expertise and complete complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities; ensure viability of IT deliverables; recommend development options and approve team's technical deliverables; conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security; identify potential solutions and approve technical solutions proposed by team members; research issues and perform root cause analysis; resolve technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients; respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner; anticipate technology problems and prevent them. Requires Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Computer Science, Computer Applications, or closely related IT field and two years of experience in job offered or in IT position(s) including Specialist Contractor and/or Manager; or Bachelor's and five years of experience. Background in education, training or experience must include Python, Java, Angular, Spring Boot, Micro Services, AWS Cloud (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SQS, ECS), Appian (Business Process Management tool), Apigee, Big Data technologies (Hadoop, AWS EMR, Scala). Company operates on hybrid model with three days in office and work-from-home available two days.